From: Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>,
Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>,
16735@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#16735: Not very useful "Keywords:" headers in some elpa packages
Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2014 16:32:37 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <878uteg0lm.fsf_-_@lifelogs.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvwqgy3ke9.fsf-monnier+emacsbugs@gnu.org> (Stefan Monnier's message of "Thu, 13 Feb 2014 14:12:26 -0500, Thu, 13 Feb 2014 14:37:50 -0500")
On Thu, 13 Feb 2014 14:12:26 -0500 Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> wrote:
>> Why should it?
SM> Because the finder keywords are not magical. They're just a starting
SM> point for very general classification. But it makes a lot of sense to
SM> put an "ocaml" keyword on ocaml-mode, tuareg-mode and merlin since all
SM> 3 provide functionality for ocaml. Similarly it makes a lot of sense to
SM> use a "completion" keyword for company, icomplete, auto-complete,
SM> completion-ui, semantic, etc...
SM> What I mean is that there's no reason to separate the two. What the UI
SM> could do, OTOH is to only "buttonize" those keywords that appear in more
SM> than one package.
OK, but the original report here was to prune these keywords. So do I
fix the UI (since I created the buttons) as you suggest or do I prune
the keywords as Glenn suggested?
SM> Stefan "who doesn't like the finder keywords very much anyway.
SM> I mean, «convenience»? «tools»?"
Yes, I agree, and extra points for the fancy quotations :)
Ted
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-02-13 21:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-02-13 2:05 bug#16735: Not very useful "Keywords:" headers in some elpa packages Glenn Morris
2014-02-13 14:08 ` Ted Zlatanov
2014-02-13 16:00 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-02-13 17:01 ` Ted Zlatanov
2014-02-13 18:05 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-02-13 18:08 ` Glenn Morris
2014-02-13 18:16 ` Glenn Morris
2014-02-13 18:21 ` Ted Zlatanov
2014-02-13 19:12 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-02-13 19:37 ` Glenn Morris
2014-02-13 19:47 ` Drew Adams
2014-02-13 21:32 ` Ted Zlatanov [this message]
2014-02-14 1:50 ` Stefan Monnier
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